from Sam Ewalt:
>Listen up Bernie. I live in an isolated, rural area where the only
>place to buy a used computer is the vacuum cleaner store. I was new to
>computers in 93 and didn't know much. What I got for my money was
>the XT, a modem, DOS 6.22, a dot matrix printer, and Telix installed
>and configured. Plus I've gotten years of advice and encourgement.
>That XT was worth every penny I paid for it. So was the 386 that I
>bought in December of 95 for $150 in Detroit.
Sam, are you sure that was MS-DOS 6.22 in 1993? Most of my MS-DOS 6.22 files,
in directory C:\DOS, bear date 5-31-94, when that really meant 1994. Maybe your
chronology is off? I had an upgrade to 486DX/33 to replace a 386DX/16
motherboard gone bad, later that motherboard went bad, and I got Cx486DX2 at
66 MHz which was supposed to be Intel but evidently wasn't. I got an upgrade to
Newcom 14.4K fax modem with Comit, which did Xmodem and Ymodem but not Zmodem.
Slash / always activated the menu, which was a real bug, since I couldn't use
the slash in the normal way in a dialogue with a BBS. Thank God that dealer
went out of business in early 2000, I sure wasn't going to buy another computer
from them.
MS-DOS 6.22 was installed by that computer dealer in connection with a repair or
motherboard replacement, without my agreement, so I never got the manuals or
diskettes. I was using OS/2 2.0, 2.1, 2.11, Warp 3, and then Warp 4 most of the
time. I didn't do so well in the financial aspect, with each upgrade or repair
usually costing well over $150.
Can you use Telix nowadays? I downloaded a DOS communications (BBS) program
from Ralf Brown but with the growth of the Internet, haven't had a chance to use
that program.
